Iowa State Cyclones (26-6, 13-6 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (22-9, 12-6 Big 12)<\/p>\n
Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 12:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cyclones -5.5; over\/under is 143.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: No. 16 Texas Tech takes on No. 7 Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament.<\/p>\n The Red Raiders\u2019 record in Big 12 play is 12-6, and their record is 10-3 against non-conference opponents. Texas Tech has a 20-9 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n The Cyclones are 13-6 against Big 12 opponents. Iowa State is third in the Big 12 giving up 65.0 points while holding opponents to 42.5% shooting.<\/p>\n Texas Tech makes 47.1% of its shots from the field this season, which is 4.6 percentage points higher than Iowa State has allowed to its opponents (42.5%). Iowa State averages 8.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 6.6 per game Texas Tech allows.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the second time this season. Texas Tech won the last meeting 82-73 on Feb. 28. Donovan Atwell scored 18 to help lead Texas Tech to the victory, and Joshua Jefferson scored 22 points for Iowa State.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: JT Toppin is averaging 21.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks for the Red Raiders. Atwell is averaging 16.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Tamin Lipsey is averaging 13.2 points, five assists and 2.2 steals for the Cyclones. Jefferson is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Red Raiders: 6-4, averaging 75.7 points, 33.0 rebounds, 14.9 assists, 5.2 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 68.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Cyclones: 6-4, averaging 72.2 points, 29.6 rebounds, 15.0 assists, 8.5 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.4 points.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa State Cyclones (26-6, 13-6 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (22-9, 12-6 Big 12) Kansas City,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1890,2692,416,49066,35218,3685,4860,34554,14855,168,170,169,4862,154,14875,27,415,1760],"class_list":{"0":"post-202004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12-conference","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-data-skrive","12":"tag-ia-state-wire","13":"tag-iowa","14":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","15":"tag-joshua-jefferson","16":"tag-jt-toppin","17":"tag-lubbock","18":"tag-lubbock-headlines","19":"tag-lubbock-news","20":"tag-mens-college-basketball","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-tamin-lipsey","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","25":"tag-tx-state-wire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}